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Originally Posted by Billi
I like reading the classics but at some point I noticed that I mostly read foreign language classics and seldom German ones. I supposed that the reason for this could be the older language or the speed of the stories. In foreign books or in their translations that are mostly of a newer date I don't experience this problem so much.
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A comment that Joanna Trollope made in her BBC interview, which I agree with, is that modern readers expect books in which something "happens". As anyone who's read Jane Austen knows, there is virtually no "action"; they are a "comedy of manners", and most of the books consist of conversations, rather than actions.